JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The boos rained down on Jake Paul as he walked to his seat at UFC 261. Before lengthy, the mantra started.
The chant rang all through the sector as Randy Brown and Alex Oliveira slugged it out in the featured prelim. It caught the eye of UFC commentator Joe Rogan.
“What are they chanting?” Rogan requested on the printed, although nobody at the time had a solution.
Immediately after Brown submitted Oliveira with a one-armed rear-naked choke, Rogan let viewers know what the mantra was.
“I found out what the chant was. It was ‘F Jake Paul,’” Rogan mentioned. “That’s what they were all yelling out. How’d that get started? I don’t know.”
Paul’s presence appeared to strike a nerve with Rogan’s broadcast associate, Daniel Cormier, who has a lately birthed beef with the YouTube star-turned-boxer.
“I swear to God, I just saw Jake Paul. I pointed at him and said, ‘Don’t play with me,’ because I’ll smack him in the face,” Cormier responded. “He’s right there. I’ll slap him. I don’t play those games, Joe.”
Daniel Cormier desires to smack Jake Paul lmao #ufc261 pic.twitter.com/PVas9Oq0CI
— THE NBA Hustle 🏀 (@TheNBAHustle) April 25, 2021
But that wasn’t it. After Brown’s post-fight interview concluded and the UFC’s well-known “Baba O’Reilly” montage performed in entrance of a dwell viewers for the primary time in 13 months, Cormier left his place and made a B-line towards the place Paul was seated.
As UFC safety intervened, Cormier exchanged phrases with Paul earlier than he was escorted again to his cageside seat. The alternate was captured by MMA Junkie’s John Morgan and could be seen in the video above and the tweet under.
Jake Paul is in the constructing at #UFC261. Did you hear Daniel Cormier say on the printed that he’d “slap him in the face?”
Well, that they had a confrontation. 😬
(🎥 @MMAjunkieJohn) pic.twitter.com/ilwWgIO2rw
— MMA Junkie (@MMAjunkie) April 25, 2021
Here’s the video 👇
Daniel Cormier confronts Jake Paul at #UFC261
pic.twitter.com/VbQ2rwTrdP— Seán Sheehan (@SeanSheehanBA) April 25, 2021
The confrontation between Cormier and Paul didn’t materialize on the spot. Since Paul’s knockout win against Ben Askren final Saturday, he exchanged phrases with Cormier by means of social media and in interviews.
On a latest episode of his brother Logan Paul’s podcast, “IMPAULSIVE”, Jake sounded off on Cormier for his previous assist of Askren.
“Shut the f*ck up, b*tch,” Paul mentioned. “I’ll beat the f*ck out of your fat ass, too, just like Stipe did. Cleveland sh*t. I swear to God. I’ll beat the f*ck out of Daniel Cormier.”
On ESPN, Cormier shrugged off Paul’s feedback – and a tweet the YouTube star had despatched, which insulted Cormier. The former UFC heavyweight and light-weight heavyweight champion mentioned he was not in “punching down” by preventing somebody like Paul.
“This dude would never fight me,” Cormier mentioned on ESPN. “I would kill him. Why would I ever fight someone like that?”
